Alhagi

See also: alhagi

Translingual

Alhagi maurorum (camelthorn)

Etymology

Introduced as a genus name by Abraham Gagnebin in 1755, rarely circulating before as a transcription of the Arabic حَاج (ḥāj) or more specifically vulgar pronunciation of its singulative, with prepended article, الْحَاجَة (al-ḥāja), this plant name deriving from Aramaic חָגָּה / ܚ̈ܵܓܸܐ (ḥāggā, “Alhagi”), from Akkadian 𒂊𒄖𒌋 (egû, a thorny plant, possibly Alhagi).

Proper noun

Alhagi f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Fabaceae – camelthorns, manna trees.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, fabids – clades; Fabales – order; Fabaceae – family; Faboideae - subfamily; Hedysareae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Alhagi maurorum - type species; Alhagi graecorum, Alhagi sparsifolia - selected species

References

• Alhagi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Alhagi on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Alhagi on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Alhagi at USDA Plants database
• Alhagi at Tropicos
• Alhagi at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Alhagi at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Alhagi at Germplasm Resources Information Network
• Alhagi at The Plant List
• Gagnebin, Abraham (1755) Acta helvetica physico-mathematico-anatomico-botanico-medica, volume II, Basel: Johann Rudolf Im-Hof, page 59